Born to Jewish parents and deeply affected by the horrors of World War II, Milgram designed an experiment at Yale University that he hoped would illuminate the particular German susceptibility to ...

We see this everywhere in the world. The name of the experiment comes from Stanley Milgram, a Yale psychology who conducted an experiment between 1961 and 1962. He wanted to find out if people ...

6. The Milgram Experiment (1963) Stanley Milgram's study tested obedience to authority. Participants were told to administer increasingly severe shocks to a person (who was actually an actor ...